Passing configure options to make distcheck

[John Levon]

We have some code that is built by default, but cannot be successfully
used with separate srcdir/objdir. However, a configure option can be
used that doesn't need  this code.

make distcheck fails by default, but if I could pass in a configure
option, it would work. Can I do this ?

I'm using automake 1.5 upwards, autoconf 2.13  upwards

thanks
john
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